Arson suspected as machinery working on pipeline burns

INVESTIGATIONS are underway after a fire near Targinnie Rd on Monday afternoon destroyed heavy machinery working on the gas pipeline.

Gladstone Criminal Investigation Branch detectives received the call about 2pm after an employee reported the fire, which looked to have been deliberately lit among the machinery before blazing a trail through a crop and bushland towards Targinnie Rd.

Queensland Fire and Rescue Service officers were called to the blaze, to contain the fire and prevented it jumping the road and moving towards a nearby farmhouse.